| Leading population centers | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Core city (cities) | Metro area population[1] | County | Region |  Stockholm  Gothenburg  Malmö  Uppsala | ||
| 1 | Stockholm | 2,308,143 | Stockholm County | Svealand | |||
| 2 | Gothenburg | 1,021,831 | Västra Götaland County | Götaland | |||
| 3 | Malmö | 669,471 | Skåne County | Götaland | |||
| 4 | Uppsala | 294,689 | Uppsala County | Svealand | |||
| 5 | Helsingborg | 242,540 | Skåne County | Götaland | |||
| 6 | Linköping | 207,052 | Östergötland County | Götaland | |||
| 7 | Örebro | 206,344 | Örebro County | Svealand | |||
| 8 | Västerås | 198,800 | Västmanland County | Svealand | |||
| 9 | Jönköping | 170,494 | Jönköping County | Götaland | |||
| 10 | Norrköping | 163,368 | Östergötland County | Götaland | |||
| Based on 2018 functional urban areas population estimates from Eurostat | |||||||
